After a long pandemic-induced delay, Rabbi Simon Jacobson announced the winners of this year’s 6th annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay and Creative Contest during this week’s MyLife: Chassidus Applied broadcast in honor of Chai Elul • Full Story  

Are the Pessukim in the Shir Hashirim ever to be understood literally? Is Elul considered a month of harvest? What should I think about when listening to the Shofar? Is there a time of year when Tefillos are more effective? What should I do about my husband’s addiction to inappropriate online content? and many more interesting topics in this episode of MyLife Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

What practical steps can we do this Elul to make an actual difference in our lives? How to fight battles by remaining above your adversaries How can you connect with G-d in a way that you can feel Him responding? How do we find clarity amidst all the disinformation being spread today? Are there any predictions about current events in the Torah? and many more interesting topics in this class of Mylife Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

Are your commitments superimposed or engraved in you? How can we know if we have made a successful connection with the Rebbe? What’s your opinion on the tearing down of statues? How should we react to fireworks in the streets? and many more interesting topics in this episode of Mylife Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch Live

What is the significance of “raising the flames until they rise on their own’? What is our attitude to racism and to the recent violent protests? Should we be joining the peaceful protests? On Shabbos? Can we compare racism today to the persecution faced by the Jewish people throughout history? and many more interesting questions in this episode of MyLife Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

What possible benefit is there in us being deprived of our shuls and schools? Is the pandemic a punishment? Can we question G-d’s ways? Can we go on strike and stop doing mitzvos until G-d ends the plague? and many more interesting topics in this episode of Mylife Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch Live

How can we build faith and trust in times of crisis? continuation • Does prayer help? • Why is there collective punishment in Judaism? • Why were the 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva killed because they did not respect each other? • Why do we light bonfires on Lag B’Omer? and many more questions in this episode of Mylife Chassidus applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Full Story

How do we change habits based on life circumstances according to Chassidus? How do we know Hashem is perfect? and many more questions in tonight’s episode of Mylife Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson at 8:00 PM • Watch Live

Watch Live 8:00 PM: Are there any parallels between our current corona plague and the plague that struck Rabbi Akiva’s students? How do we address the guilt of the surviving relatives in this pandemic? and many more questions in this episode of Mylife Chassidus applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch Live

Watch Live: Tonight, there will be a live class with Rabbi Simon Jacobson titled “Our Secret Antidote”. Tune in at 9:00 to watch it live • Watch Live

Watch Live 9:00: Why do we keep the Fast of Esther today when there is no decree? Why is there ever a mitzvah to get drunk? How could Mordechai put all the Jews in danger by not bowing to Haman? Are their allusions in midrash that Esther was married to Mordechai? What did the Jews do wrong by attending Achashverosh’s banquet? • Watch Live

Watch Live at 8:00: What attitude should we have towards Coronavirus? How do we know that Moshe was born on the 7th of Adar when the Jewish months were not organized until long after Moshe lived? What does it mean to increase in joy in Adar? Chassidus question: How do we have free will if G-d is recreating the world every second in a specific way? • Watch

It happens to us all. At the train station. In the checkout line at the grocery store. Driving the kids to school. Sitting through a meeting at work. We experience a moment of stress. A feeling of frustration. A flash of hopelessness. An encounter of anger. Confusion about who we are, why we are here, what we could possibly doing differently in this moment so it doesn’t feel quite so upsetting • Full Story

Summer tznius: Until what age is it acceptable for a boy to wear open shoes without socks? What’s our role and goal with summer camp? What are reasons why one would “go off the derech” and how can we influence him/her in a positive way? What does the Rebbe and Chassidus say about climate change and environmentalism? • MyLife Episode 220 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

Chassidus Applied to Yud Beis-Yud Gimmel Tammuz. What are your thoughts about the border and immigration debate? Should children ever be separated from their parents? How to trust and become a tougher person? • MyLife Episode 218 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

118th anniversary of the Rebbe’s parents; How can someone consider himself a chassid and not be careful with halacha? Is life in our hands or Hashem’s hands? • MyLife Episode 214 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

My teenage friends are drowning: What can we do? Are we sure that everyone has a soulmate? How to educate children about intimacy? How do we explain the words in Tanya that one has to let go of everything, including wife and children, for G-d? • MyLife Episode 213 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

Is there any truth to the idea of chassidim and family members “giving” of their years to the Rebbe? What is the healthy way for a teenager to interact with the opposite gender? Is the Torah always sensitive to people’s feelings? • MyLife Episode 212 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

Are the latest peace talks between North and South Korea another sign of Moshiach? What is the Rebbe’s opinion on sonograms? Was the Holocaust a punishment? What is the difference between asking Hashem to bring Moshiach and to bring the Geulah? • MyLife Episode 211 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

What is the story with the Rebbe’s brother, R’ Yisroel Aryeh Leib? Why are many women on a mitzva-based walkathon dressed not tzinus’dik? Are butterflies included in the Rebbe’s directive not to show children impure animals? • MyLife Episode 210 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

The winners of this year’s 4th annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay Contest were announced live during the special Yud Alef Nissan Edition of the MyLife: Chassidus Applied Webcast • Full Story

Chassidus Applied to Yud Alef Nissan; What is the connection between the Rebbe as the leader of the seventh generation and malchus? What does the Rebbe want and expect of us? Is shlichus the only option? • MyLife Episode 207 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch

What would the Rebbe say about the recent school shootings? Isn’t the Bar-Mitzvah Maamar too difficult for our children? Can we understand G-d? How to be an emotionally warm person? Do you recommend reading secular self-help books? • MyLife Episode 202 with Rabbi Simon Jacobson • Watch